Talk to the Blog: MyChingo

By on January 30, 2007 in Cool Tools with 18 Comments

One of my favorite bloggers, Anna Farmery at The Engaging Brand, uses a widget so her audience can leave messages on her blog. it seems like a fantastic tool for engagement, and therefore a perfect fit for Anna’s brand.

MyChingo is easy to set-up (took 15 minutes) and I’ve placed it on the right sidebar. You can leave a message up to two minutes in length (we may extend that if needed) and I look forward to using it as a Q and A tool.

Here’s how I’m looking to use the tool. Ask a question by leaving a message (everyone can hear it – so choose your words wisely). I’ll either respond via voice on MyChingo or in a blog post. If I don’t know the answer, we’ll find out together by asking the blogosphere.

You can listen by clicking the play button, record by clicking on Leave Me a Message or even subscribe to the feed!

UPDATE: I appreciate the first couple of questions we received today. The challenge in front of me is how do I respond and publicly recognize those who leave messages? Links? A follow-up post? Within the comments? I’ve left a message in response, and I appreciate Tom, Maria and Greg for helping us break the ice on this project.

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  • Tom Swartwood

    oops. Didn’t quite get the Chingo thing. Is it really better than old-fashoined voice mail? Nice work last night on BlogTalkRadio. What about SecondLife for SEMEE? Might just stir the pot and get things cookin’.
    Tom

  • http://chriscree.net/ Chris Cree

    Hey Mike, another company that offers a similar service is Evoca. They’re local here in Savannah and gave a good presentation at the conference Friday. I’ve been meaning to give them a try. I’ll let you know how it goes.

  • http://thetenaciousmarketer.blogspot.com/ Maria Lopez

    Interesting little gadget. I’d leave a message, but the phones over here are ringing off the hook! I’ll give it a try in a little while. :D
    As a side note, the word “chingo” is the grand daddy of swear words in Spanish. Hmmm. Just a friendly reminder that we all need to be a little more cautious when coining new product names.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    >Tom – Sorry the message didn’t come through. Might be a Java issue, simply an update to Java should work. SEMEE might enjoy Second Life…a bit later:-)
    >Chris – Thanks for the tip on Evoca. I should check that out, but let me know how your test goes.
    >Maria – Thanks for the translation tip. Maybe that’s why they’re changing to MobaTalk? I responded to your great questions via voice on the widget:-)

  • http://theengagingbrand.typepad.com Anna Farmery

    Mike
    Thank you for leaving a message. I can tell you as a recipient of someone taking the time to record a quick audio message it means the world. I would encourage readers to leave one, bloggers spend a lot of time on their content and receiving a message makes it seem all worthwhile. Blogging is about creating a conversation so any way that we can encourage interaction has to be good! Keep up the great work, and you will find your audio comment in my latest podcast.

  • http://www.voxxmail.com/talk_to_the_blog_mychingo-archive.html VoxxMail

    Talk to the Blog: MyChingo

    [Source: ConverStations] quoted: One of my favorite bloggers, Anna Farmery at The Engaging Brand, uses a widget so her audience can leave messages on her blog. it seems like a fantastic tool for engagement, and therefore a perfect fit for Anna’s brand.

  • http://www.mobatalk.com Michael Bailey

    Maria,
    Here’s a few more:
    Chingo: No spanish native I’ve spoken with ever uses the word.
    Chingo is the name of a volcano on the border between Guatemala and El Salvador.
    Chingo means “best friend” in Korean.
    Chingo means “chat lingo” in computer jargon.
    I suppose that as humans, we’re typically quick to find the negative connotations of things, then write them off as something bad.
    But yes, Mike S. is correct; in lieu of that one possible negative derivation, the new system is being called MobaTalk.

  • http://www.coachingwizardry.com Joanna Young

    Hi Mike, I think it’s a really good question about how to respond to the comments and questions. I was thinking the same thing as I get ready to add mychingo to my site. I guess it’s probably going to be horses for courses: if people are just calling by to say hello you’d just say hi back in the same medium; if there’s an interesting set of points I think I’d respond to them in the same way as written comments – by way of comments (perhaps bundling together a few points but highlighting individual points) or a post if there was some really good stuff you wanted to reflect on. I’m not sure it would be ‘enough’ to leave it in the talk comment box because not everyone would look there – and of course it’s not searchable.
    Thanks for testing the water for us – I look forward to seeing how it pans out
    Joanna

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